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cy384 | 4 years ago

the GUI code for the earliest macs was absolutely a great feat of engineering

by getting my hands dirty with the system, I'm impressed by the way things were designed for the wimpiest processors (and also getting a lot of insight into the flaws of the OS that were exposed as machines became more powerful)

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fzzzy|4 years ago

They really managed to find ways to make it work despite the hardware of the day. There was a lot of hand coded assembly until the mid 90s.